Peru Logged In Alaska!

DXerPaulAK

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So, I MUST share what is probably one of my best SW logs to date. This will about blow your socks off!

Back on Saturday night/very very early Sunday morning local time (Sunday morning UTC) here at my McGrath, Alaska QTH, I had some real good central/south american reception on HF... so about 0953UTC I decided to tune across the tropical bands where some central/south american stations still reside.

I got to 4775khz and while I had CODAR Hammering away ((Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar), I also clearly had a carrier for something else at 0953UTC so I hit record and waited. .and boy was I rewarded!!

This is 1kw non directional Radio Tarma from Peru on 4775khz .. and despite CODAR hammering the piss out of it, you can very clearly hear the music and theres a commercial in my recording where you can make out the phone number. The recording gets much better 15 minutes in.

I swear if you listen closely, you can tell theres a carrier under the CODAR when my recording begins before the music kicks in 10 seconds later!

The picture is from the Radio Tarma SW Dipole antenna from the AM/FM/SW Transmitter site on the mountain outside of Tarma, Peru. The ppicture is from DX'er Don Moore's website where hes got alot more awesome stuff Don Moore DXer - Main Page

Here is my audio recording: Radio Tarma 4775kHz Peru 0957UTC Sat Apr 8, 2023.mp3
I use an ATS25 max radio, DXE Preamp, 15ft wellbrook look and Emtech ZM2 Tuner

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mmckenna

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Damn, that's a nice catch.

Best I ever did was a 150 watt AM station with a very short antenna at about 500 miles battling against a 50KW clear channel station 500 miles in the opposite direction.
 

WB5UOM

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You do seem to do very well up there on reception.
posted some very nice catches like this one
 
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